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Accor vs. Overture

A similar judgment by French courts was issued on 17 January 2005: Overture has been held legally liable because the judge considered that Overture's ad booking tool also encouraged advertisers to chose keywords that were trade marks belonging to Accor. Overture was ordered to pay damages of 200 000 euros and to publish the judgment on its website.

The decision is available in French at http://www.Juriscom.net (download the pdf file)

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